Barcelona should regret rejecting Darwin Nunez

DBasia.news – Regret always comes later. Those words could be what Luis Suarez wants to convey to his former club, Barcelona. El Pistolero once gave advice to Barcelona regarding players and Barca rejected it.

The figure in question is Benfica’s 22-year-old striker, Darwin Nunez. The Uruguayan striker is one of the hot commodities in the transfer market in the attacking position and he already has five caps and two goals with the Uruguayan national team.

Darwin Nunez was signed by Benfica from Almeria in 2020 for 24 million euros and now his value can increase again, because Nunez has shown his ability that can still be developed. Nunez has a strong physique, good playing technique and finishing.

Barcelona already felt the power of Nunez when they lost 0-3 to Benfica in the Champions League. Nunez scored two goals in that match and another goal was scored by Rafa Silva.

Ronald Koeman’s Barcelona direction was not in the best condition and performance, but still Benfica won the victory over historic clubs in Europe and Spain. No doubt after the match, Nunez was flooded with fans, especially since he is still young.

Nunez is Barcelona’s nightmare, but uniquely the same club has the potential to recruit him if he listened to Suarez. Nunez senior in Uruguay had recommended Barcelona to recruit Nunez when he defended Almeria.

“When he was at Almeria, I said it at Barca. They asked me and I said ‘Watch this player, he is very interesting’, but they said no, he is at Almeria, he is very young. But instead of paying now 80, 90 or 100 million euros, they could have paid 15 or 20 then.”

Though it is too late, Barca can still sign him, but his value will no longer be low if Nunez continues to show significant progress. Ironically at this time, Barca need additional ammunition in the central attacking position.

After being left by Suarez, Messi, and Antoine Griezmann, Barca only had Luuk de Jong as a central striker. Martin Braithwaite is still injured, while new signing, Sergio Aguero is also injured.